Strict vigil by BSF along Indo-Bangla border in Tripura. (File image)

Security has been heightened along the countryโ€™s borders with Bangladesh in Tripura and Myanmar in Mizoram, although there were no immediate reports of any disturbances.

โ€œThere is no input or reports of any possible disturbances and negativity along the India-Bangladesh border. However, in view of the development in the western frontiers, BSF battalions deployed have been asked to remain alert round-the-clock,โ€ a Border Security Force official said in Agartala.

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โ€œSenior officials and battalion commandants are closely monitoring the situation,โ€ he said.

Mizoram chief secretary Lalnunmawia Chuaungo said on Friday that Assam Rifles troopers accompanied by Army personnel were carrying out โ€œprofessional exercisesโ€ along the stateโ€™s border with Myanmar.

Media reports said that the chief secretary on behalf of the Mizoram government, in separate letters to the defence and home ministries complained that the โ€œdeployment of additional forces in the border villages adjoining India-Myanmar border in the pretext of routine exercises without informing the state government and this is against the standard practiceโ€.

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Meanwhile, the Peopleโ€™s Representation for Identity and Status of Mizoram (PRISM), an anti-corruption NGO watchdog, also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Human Rights Commission seeking a clarification on the present military build-up in Lawngtlai district, which shares a 318 km border with Bangladesh and a 510 km border with Myanmar.